HOUSE in your house

Nobuhiko Obayashi’s bizarre, cult-crazy-fest House is coming to your home on Blu-Ray and DVD October 26, 2010 from Criterion!

From Criterion:

How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie House (Hausu)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby-Doo as directed by Mario Bava? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory head trip about a schoolgirl who travels with six classmates to her ailing aunt’s creaky country home and comes face-to-face with evil spirits, a demonic house cat, a bloodthirsty piano, and other ghoulish visions, all realized by Obayashi via a series of mattes, animation, and collage effects. Equal parts absurd and nightmarish, House might have been beamed to Earth from some other planet. Never before available on home video in the United States, it’s one of the most exciting cult discoveries in years.

Features include an early experimental film from Obayashi, an appreciation by The House of the Devil director Ti West, and a documentary featuring interviews with the film’s director and screenwriter.
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